Originally Posted by
Hussar 54
Speaking about this with a lawyer friend over the New Year Holiday....
Seems that one way out of this, although perhaps not ideal operationally for ej and others, would be to have no French ' base ' as such and have all sectors starting in France operated by aircraft and crew not based in France - ie, first sector of the day in from UK, Germany, Italy, or wherever, followed by a second sector starting France to a non-French destination or then a third sector from France to a non-French destination if the second sector is an internal / domestic sector.
Provided all crews operating these sectors are not on French employment contracts, or the aircraft do not overnight and crew do not HOTAC at company expense in France before or after start and finish of duty, the Gestapo Tax authorities here would have some difficulty to explain any repeat of their tactics...
I think you'll find that this is the case with the majority of CityJet's ops at CDG, although that might be more for operational reasons than legal reasons...
And finally, all that these motherfuc..... technocrats will have been able to do, is to obtain the french crews operating for EZ or RY are given the choice between furlough or moving abroad, when 20% of the flightcrews are looking for a job....
Nice mix of banana republic and popular democratic republic.....
It's a french who writes this....
Dom